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Social Media, Smartphones, and the Anxiety Generation | Bharosa She is nineteen. Her phone holds accounts on Instagram, Snapchat, and two different short video apps. She posts carefully curated images. She checks how many likes each post gets within the first hour after posting, because if it does not cross a certain number quickly, she […]

Body Dysmorphic Disorder — When the Mirror Becomes the Enemy | Bharosa She spends three hours every morning in front of the mirror. She has spent three hours every morning in front of the mirror for the last eleven years. She examines her nose from every angle. She believes it is too big, that one

Health Anxiety (Hypochondria) — The Fear of Being Sick That Becomes an Illness | Bharosa He has had seven MRI scans in the last four years. All of them are normal. He has seen a cardiologist who has done three stress tests. All normal. He has been to five different neurologists convinced that his occasional

Adult Eating Disorders in India — Beyond the Teenage Stereotype | Bharosa She is thirty-eight years old, married, a mother of two, and a senior manager at a multinational company in Hyderabad. She has a secret that she has never told anyone. After her family goes to bed, she goes to the kitchen, takes out

Intermittent Explosive Disorder — When Anger Is Actually a Clinical Condition | Bharosa He is forty-two years old and has been married for fifteen years. He loves his wife and his two children more than anything in the world. He is kind, funny, and generous — most of the time. But two or three times